- The first to suggest that Motion is an illusion. (Becasue there is no
such thing as "empty space": space can only be described as "where the real
thing, that which is, was not." Like you can never nknow what has
pre-existed your engagement with it - either perceptually or actively -
sound familiar?
...So where you have NOT got that which 'is', you obviously only have that
which i 'not; (ergo), all you can prove is that which does not exist:
although that seems unlikely, how to prove what doesn't exist, I mean, is
premised on the assumptin that whatever you were seeking WAS there just
prior to the
claim upon it - in the moment of knowing, we cease to know.
2. Aristole: realizing this was nonsense, he contrived a formula for
determing what was contained by space: determine the boundaries of any
particular space and measure what is within those boundaries.
Obviously, within the boundaries of space what occurs can be identified as
"there", as opposed to what is not that what it is that you seek. And in
the boundaries drawn, stuff moves. Parmenides was saying motion can't exist
as an independent phenom, I think...
These are two examples, I think, of original ideas. Aristotle was
elaborting on...who...Eucledian geometry> no, can't recall.
But, the thing about original ideas is that there is no way to recognize
them except in-relation to what we already presume to know; and as such,
our presumptions about what we think we DO know change whatever might be
original
by framing it into existent meanings.
Original ideas, like anything odd, are rarely recognized because
they offer no touchstone of familiarity.
anyhow. I do think Parmenides, however poetically deluded, was the first to
use logic as a word play to substantiate a proposition, which he did, as a
poet, to
establish that truth cannot be proven, and all we can do is demonstrate how
reality is contained by the words we rely upon. (Wittgenstein?)
another original idea /in media: "Absolutely Fabulous: - Brit sitcom
written by Jennifer Saunders, possibly the brightest and most intelligent
commedienne working; has free reigns at BBC to do whatever. Show has been
since cancelled, but was it original? oh ya.
Finally: Fibre-Optic Arts, which use plastics and light to create
repreentations of objects (e.g. an elephant head) that, when cast through
light,
impersonate neural activity. I think that is a first, for plastic arts.
Lots of original ideas: just hard to spot 'em.
I recall reading Piaget state that the origins of congition were
irrelevant to understanding how it develops, and I have NEVER
resolved that rationale.
diane